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2. Current and novel therapies for management of Acinetobacter baumannii -associated pneumonia.
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Shein AMS, Hongsing P, Smith OK, Phattharapornjaroen P, Miyanaga K, Cui L, Ishikawa H, Amarasiri M, Monk PN, Kicic A, Chatsuwan T, Pletzer D, Higgins PG, Abe S, and Wannigama DL
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Acinetobacter baumannii is a common pathogen associated with hospital-acquired pneumonia showing increased resistance to carbapenem and colistin antibiotics nowadays. Infections with A. baumannii cause high patient fatalities due to their capability to evade current antimicrobial therapies, emphasizing the urgency of developing viable therapeutics to treat A. baumannii -associated pneumonia. In this review, we explore current and novel therapeutic options for overcoming therapeutic failure when dealing with A. baumannii -associated pneumonia. Among them, antibiotic combination therapy administering several drugs simultaneously or alternately, is one promising approach for optimizing therapeutic success. However, it has been associated with inconsistent and inconclusive therapeutic outcomes across different studies. Therefore, it is critical to undertake additional clinical trials to ascertain the clinical effectiveness of different antibiotic combinations. We also discuss the prospective roles of novel antimicrobial therapies including antimicrobial peptides, bacteriophage-based therapy, repurposed drugs, naturally-occurring compounds, nanoparticle-based therapy, anti-virulence strategies, immunotherapy, photodynamic and sonodynamic therapy, for utilizing them as additional alternative therapy while tackling A. baumannii -associated pneumonia. Importantly, these innovative therapies further require pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic evaluation for safety, stability, immunogenicity, toxicity, and tolerability before they can be clinically approved as an alternative rescue therapy for A. baumannii -associated pulmonary infections.
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- 2024
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3. Conserved chromatin and repetitive patterns reveal slow genome evolution in frogs.
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Bredeson JV, Mudd AB, Medina-Ruiz S, Mitros T, Smith OK, Miller KE, Lyons JB, Batra SS, Park J, Berkoff KC, Plott C, Grimwood J, Schmutz J, Aguirre-Figueroa G, Khokha MK, Lane M, Philipp I, Laslo M, Hanken J, Kerdivel G, Buisine N, Sachs LM, Buchholz DR, Kwon T, Smith-Parker H, Gridi-Papp M, Ryan MJ, Denton RD, Malone JH, Wallingford JB, Straight AF, Heald R, Hockemeyer D, Harland RM, and Rokhsar DS
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- Animals, Genome genetics, Anura genetics, Xenopus genetics, Centromere genetics, Chromatin genetics, Evolution, Molecular
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Frogs are an ecologically diverse and phylogenetically ancient group of anuran amphibians that include important vertebrate cell and developmental model systems, notably the genus Xenopus. Here we report a high-quality reference genome sequence for the western clawed frog, Xenopus tropicalis, along with draft chromosome-scale sequences of three distantly related emerging model frog species, Eleutherodactylus coqui, Engystomops pustulosus, and Hymenochirus boettgeri. Frog chromosomes have remained remarkably stable since the Mesozoic Era, with limited Robertsonian (i.e., arm-preserving) translocations and end-to-end fusions found among the smaller chromosomes. Conservation of synteny includes conservation of centromere locations, marked by centromeric tandem repeats associated with Cenp-a binding surrounded by pericentromeric LINE/L1 elements. This work explores the structure of chromosomes across frogs, using a dense meiotic linkage map for X. tropicalis and chromatin conformation capture (Hi-C) data for all species. Abundant satellite repeats occupy the unusually long (~20 megabase) terminal regions of each chromosome that coincide with high rates of recombination. Both embryonic and differentiated cells show reproducible associations of centromeric chromatin and of telomeres, reflecting a Rabl-like configuration. Our comparative analyses reveal 13 conserved ancestral anuran chromosomes from which contemporary frog genomes were constructed., (© 2024. The Author(s).)
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- 2024
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4. Global mapping of RNA-chromatin contacts reveals a proximity-dominated connectivity model for ncRNA-gene interactions.
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Limouse C, Smith OK, Jukam D, Fryer KA, Greenleaf WJ, and Straight AF
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- Humans, RNA, Untranslated genetics, RNA, Untranslated metabolism, Genome, Chromatin genetics, RNA metabolism
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Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are transcribed throughout the genome and provide regulatory inputs to gene expression through their interaction with chromatin. Yet, the genomic targets and functions of most ncRNAs are unknown. Here we use chromatin-associated RNA sequencing (ChAR-seq) to map the global network of ncRNA interactions with chromatin in human embryonic stem cells and the dynamic changes in interactions during differentiation into definitive endoderm. We uncover general principles governing the organization of the RNA-chromatin interactome, demonstrating that nearly all ncRNAs exclusively interact with genes in close three-dimensional proximity to their locus and provide a model predicting the interactome. We uncover RNAs that interact with many loci across the genome and unveil thousands of unannotated RNAs that dynamically interact with chromatin. By relating the dynamics of the interactome to changes in gene expression, we demonstrate that activation or repression of individual genes is unlikely to be controlled by a single ncRNA., (© 2023. Springer Nature Limited.)
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- 2023
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5. Molecular conflicts disrupting centromere maintenance contribute to Xenopus hybrid inviability.
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Kitaoka M, Smith OK, Straight AF, and Heald R
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- Animals, Centromere genetics, Centromere metabolism, Centromere Protein A genetics, Centromere Protein A metabolism, Chromatin metabolism, Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone genetics, Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone metabolism, DNA, Ribosomal, Male, Semen, Xenopus laevis metabolism, Histones metabolism, RNA Polymerase I genetics, RNA Polymerase I metabolism
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Although central to evolution, the causes of hybrid inviability that drive reproductive isolation are poorly understood. Embryonic lethality occurs when the eggs of the frog X. tropicalis are fertilized with either X. laevis or X. borealis sperm. We observed that distinct subsets of paternal chromosomes failed to assemble functional centromeres, causing their mis-segregation during embryonic cell divisions. Core centromere DNA sequence analysis revealed little conservation among the three species, indicating that epigenetic mechanisms that normally operate to maintain centromere integrity are disrupted on specific paternal chromosomes in hybrids. In vitro reactions combining X. tropicalis egg extract with either X. laevis or X. borealis sperm chromosomes revealed that paternally matched or overexpressed centromeric histone CENP-A and its chaperone HJURP could rescue centromere assembly on affected chromosomes in interphase nuclei. However, although the X. laevis chromosomes maintained centromeric CENP-A in metaphase, X. borealis chromosomes did not and also displayed ultra-thin regions containing ribosomal DNA. Both centromere assembly and morphology of X. borealis mitotic chromosomes could be rescued by inhibiting RNA polymerase I or preventing the collapse of stalled DNA replication forks. These results indicate that specific paternal centromeres are inactivated in hybrids due to the disruption of associated chromatin regions that interfere with CENP-A incorporation, at least in some cases due to conflicts between replication and transcription machineries. Thus, our findings highlight the dynamic nature of centromere maintenance and its susceptibility to disruption in vertebrate interspecies hybrids., Competing Interests: Declaration of interests The authors declare no competing interests., (Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2022
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6. DiMeLo-seq: a long-read, single-molecule method for mapping protein-DNA interactions genome wide.
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Altemose N, Maslan A, Smith OK, Sundararajan K, Brown RR, Mishra R, Detweiler AM, Neff N, Miga KH, Straight AF, and Streets A
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- Centromere Protein A genetics, Chromatin genetics, DNA chemistry, DNA genetics, Genome, Human, Humans, Sequence Analysis, DNA methods, DNA Methylation, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing methods
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Studies of genome regulation routinely use high-throughput DNA sequencing approaches to determine where specific proteins interact with DNA, and they rely on DNA amplification and short-read sequencing, limiting their quantitative application in complex genomic regions. To address these limitations, we developed directed methylation with long-read sequencing (DiMeLo-seq), which uses antibody-tethered enzymes to methylate DNA near a target protein's binding sites in situ. These exogenous methylation marks are then detected simultaneously with endogenous CpG methylation on unamplified DNA using long-read, single-molecule sequencing technologies. We optimized and benchmarked DiMeLo-seq by mapping chromatin-binding proteins and histone modifications across the human genome. Furthermore, we identified where centromere protein A localizes within highly repetitive regions that were unmappable with short sequencing reads, and we estimated the density of centromere protein A molecules along single chromatin fibers. DiMeLo-seq is a versatile method that provides multimodal, genome-wide information for investigating protein-DNA interactions., (© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc.)
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- 2022
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7. Identification and characterization of centromeric sequences in Xenopus laevis .
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Smith OK, Limouse C, Fryer KA, Teran NA, Sundararajan K, Heald R, and Straight AF
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- Animals, Centromere Protein A genetics, Centromere Protein A metabolism, Chromatin genetics, Chromatin metabolism, Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Xenopus laevis genetics, Xenopus laevis metabolism, Centromere genetics, Nucleosomes genetics, Nucleosomes metabolism
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Centromeres play an essential function in cell division by specifying the site of kinetochore formation on each chromosome for mitotic spindle attachment. Centromeres are defined epigenetically by the histone H3 variant Centromere Protein A (Cenpa). Cenpa nucleosomes maintain the centromere by designating the site for new Cenpa assembly after dilution by replication. Vertebrate centromeres assemble on tandem arrays of repetitive sequences, but the function of repeat DNA in centromere formation has been challenging to dissect due to the difficulty in manipulating centromeres in cells. Xenopus laevis egg extracts assemble centromeres in vitro, providing a system for studying centromeric DNA functions. However, centromeric sequences in Xenopus laevis have not been extensively characterized. In this study, we combine Cenpa ChIP-seq with a k -mer based analysis approach to identify the Xenopus laevis centromere repeat sequences. By in situ hybridization, we show that Xenopus laevis centromeres contain diverse repeat sequences, and we map the centromere position on each Xenopus laevis chromosome using the distribution of centromere-enriched k -mers. Our identification of Xenopus laevis centromere sequences enables previously unapproachable centromere genomic studies. Our approach should be broadly applicable for the analysis of centromere and other repetitive sequences in any organism., (© 2021 Smith et al.; Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.)
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- 2021
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8. Mapping Transcriptome-Wide and Genome-Wide RNA-DNA Contacts with Chromatin-Associated RNA Sequencing (ChAR-seq).
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Limouse C, Jukam D, Smith OK, Fryer KA, and Straight AF
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- Animals, Cell Line, Cells, Cultured, Chromatin chemistry, DNA metabolism, Humans, RNA, Long Noncoding metabolism, Transcriptome, Chromatin metabolism, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Sequencing methods, DNA chemistry, RNA, Long Noncoding chemistry, Whole Genome Sequencing methods
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RNAs play key roles in the cell as molecular intermediates for protein synthesis and as regulators of nuclear processes such as splicing, posttranscriptional regulation, or chromatin remodeling. Various classes of non-coding RNAs, including long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), can bind chromatin either directly or via interaction with chromatin binding proteins. It has been proposed that lncRNAs regulate cell-state-specific genes by coordinating the locus-dependent activity of chromatin-modifying complexes. Yet, the vast majority of lncRNAs have unknown functions, and we know little about the specific loci they regulate. A key step toward understanding chromatin regulation by RNAs is to map the genomic loci with which every nuclear RNA interacts and, reciprocally, to identify all RNAs that target a given locus. Our ability to generate such data has been limited, until recently, by the lack of methods to probe the genomic localization of more than a few RNAs at a time. Here, we describe a protocol for ChAR-seq, an RNA-DNA proximity ligation method that maps the binding loci for thousands of RNAs at once and without the need for specific RNA or DNA probe sequences. The ChAR-seq approach generates chimeric RNA-DNA molecules in situ and then converts those chimeras to DNA for next-generation sequencing. Using ChAR-seq we detect many types of chromatin-associated RNA, both coding and non-coding. Understanding the RNA-DNA interactome and its changes during differentiation or disease with ChAR-seq will likely provide key insights into chromatin and RNA biology.
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- 2020
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9. Chromatin-Associated RNA Sequencing (ChAR-seq).
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Jukam D, Limouse C, Smith OK, Risca VI, Bell JC, and Straight AF
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- RNA, Small Nuclear analysis, RNA, Small Nuclear genetics, Sequence Analysis, RNA methods
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RNA is a fundamental component of chromatin. Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) can associate with chromatin to influence gene expression and chromatin state; many also act at long distances from their transcriptional origin. Yet we know almost nothing about the functions or sites of action for most ncRNAs. Current methods to identify sites of RNA interaction with the genome are limited to the study of a single RNA at a time. Here we describe a protocol for ChAR-seq, a strategy to identify all chromatin-associated RNAs and map their DNA contacts genome-wide. In ChAR-seq, proximity ligation of RNA and DNA to a linker molecule is used to construct a chimeric RNA-DNA molecule that is converted to DNA for sequencing. In a single assay, ChAR-seq can discover de novo chromatin interactions of distinct RNAs, including nascent transcripts, splicing RNAs, and long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). Resulting "maps" of genome-bound RNAs should provide new insights into RNA biology. © 2019 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
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- 2019
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10. The replication initiation determinant protein (RepID) modulates replication by recruiting CUL4 to chromatin.
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Jang SM, Zhang Y, Utani K, Fu H, Redon CE, Marks AB, Smith OK, Redmond CJ, Baris AM, Tulchinsky DA, and Aladjem MI
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- Cell Cycle drug effects, Cell Cycle genetics, Cell Line, Tumor, Chromatin metabolism, Cullin Proteins metabolism, Cyclopentanes pharmacology, Gene Expression, HCT116 Cells, Humans, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins metabolism, K562 Cells, Osteoblasts cytology, Osteoblasts drug effects, Osteoblasts metabolism, Protein Binding, Protein Transport, Pyrimidines pharmacology, Replication Origin, S-Phase Kinase-Associated Proteins antagonists & inhibitors, S-Phase Kinase-Associated Proteins metabolism, Stem Cell Factor genetics, Stem Cell Factor metabolism, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases genetics, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases metabolism, Chromatin chemistry, Cullin Proteins genetics, DNA Replication, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins genetics, S-Phase Kinase-Associated Proteins genetics
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Cell cycle progression in mammals is modulated by two ubiquitin ligase complexes, CRL4 and SCF, which facilitate degradation of chromatin substrates involved in the regulation of DNA replication. One member of the CRL4 complex, the WD-40 containing protein RepID (DCAF14/PHIP), selectively binds and activates a group of replication origins. Here we show that RepID recruits the CRL4 complex to chromatin prior to DNA synthesis, thus playing a crucial architectural role in the proper licensing of chromosomes for replication. In the absence of RepID, cells rely on the alternative ubiquitin ligase, SKP2-containing SCF, to progress through the cell cycle. RepID depletion markedly increases cellular sensitivity to SKP2 inhibitors, which triggered massive genome re-replication. Both RepID and SKP2 interact with distinct, non-overlapping groups of replication origins, suggesting that selective interactions of replication origins with specific CRL components execute the DNA replication program and maintain genomic stability by preventing re-initiation of DNA replication.
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- 2018
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11. Chromatin-associated RNA sequencing (ChAR-seq) maps genome-wide RNA-to-DNA contacts.
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Bell JC, Jukam D, Teran NA, Risca VI, Smith OK, Johnson WL, Skotheim JM, Greenleaf WJ, and Straight AF
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- Animals, Chromatin genetics, DNA genetics, DNA metabolism, Dosage Compensation, Genetic, Drosophila Proteins genetics, Drosophila Proteins metabolism, Female, Male, RNA genetics, Transcription Factors genetics, Transcription Factors metabolism, Transcription, Genetic, Chromatin metabolism, Drosophila melanogaster genetics, Drosophila melanogaster metabolism, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing methods, RNA metabolism
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RNA is a critical component of chromatin in eukaryotes, both as a product of transcription, and as an essential constituent of ribonucleoprotein complexes that regulate both local and global chromatin states. Here, we present a proximity ligation and sequencing method called Ch romatin- A ssociated R NA seq uencing (ChAR-seq) that maps all RNA-to-DNA contacts across the genome. Using Drosophila cells, we show that ChAR-seq provides unbiased, de novo identification of targets of chromatin-bound RNAs including nascent transcripts, chromosome-specific dosage compensation ncRNAs, and genome-wide trans-associated RNAs involved in co-transcriptional RNA processing., Competing Interests: JB, DJ, NT, VR, OS, WJ, JS, WG, AS No competing interests declared, (© 2018, Bell et al.)
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- 2018
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12. Phosphorylated SIRT1 associates with replication origins to prevent excess replication initiation and preserve genomic stability.
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Utani K, Fu H, Jang SM, Marks AB, Smith OK, Zhang Y, Redon CE, Shimizu N, and Aladjem MI
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- Cell Line, DNA Breaks, HCT116 Cells, Humans, K562 Cells, MCF-7 Cells, Models, Biological, Phosphorylation, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases metabolism, Protein-Tyrosine Kinases metabolism, RNA, Small Interfering genetics, Sirtuin 1 antagonists & inhibitors, Sirtuin 1 genetics, Threonine chemistry, Dyrk Kinases, DNA Replication genetics, Genomic Instability, Replication Origin, Sirtuin 1 metabolism
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Chromatin structure affects DNA replication patterns, but the role of specific chromatin modifiers in regulating the replication process is yet unclear. We report that phosphorylation of the human SIRT1 deacetylase on Threonine 530 (T530-pSIRT1) modulates DNA synthesis. T530-pSIRT1 associates with replication origins and inhibits replication from a group of 'dormant' potential replication origins, which initiate replication only when cells are subject to replication stress. Although both active and dormant origins bind T530-pSIRT1, active origins are distinguished from dormant origins by their unique association with an open chromatin mark, histone H3 methylated on lysine 4. SIRT1 phosphorylation also facilitates replication fork elongation. SIRT1 T530 phosphorylation is essential to prevent DNA breakage upon replication stress and cells harboring SIRT1 that cannot be phosphorylated exhibit a high prevalence of extrachromosomal elements, hallmarks of perturbed replication. These observations suggest that SIRT1 phosphorylation modulates the distribution of replication initiation events to insure genomic stability., (Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research 2017.)
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- 2017
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13. Temporal association of ORCA/LRWD1 to late-firing origins during G1 dictates heterochromatin replication and organization.
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Wang Y, Khan A, Marks AB, Smith OK, Giri S, Lin YC, Creager R, MacAlpine DM, Prasanth KV, Aladjem MI, and Prasanth SG
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- Binding Sites, Cell Line, Chromatin metabolism, CpG Islands, DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferases metabolism, DNA Methylation, DNA Replication, Histone Code, Humans, G1 Phase genetics, Heterochromatin metabolism, Microtubule Proteins metabolism, Replication Origin
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DNA replication requires the recruitment of a pre-replication complex facilitated by Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) onto the chromatin during G1 phase of the cell cycle. The ORC-associated protein (ORCA/LRWD1) stabilizes ORC on chromatin. Here, we evaluated the genome-wide distribution of ORCA using ChIP-seq during specific time points of G1. ORCA binding sites on the G1 chromatin are dynamic and temporally regulated. ORCA association to specific genomic sites decreases as the cells progressed towards S-phase. The majority of the ORCA-bound sites represent replication origins that also associate with the repressive chromatin marks H3K9me3 and methylated-CpGs, consistent with ORCA-bound origins initiating DNA replication late in S-phase. Further, ORCA directly associates with the repressive marks and interacts with the enzymes that catalyze these marks. Regions that associate with both ORCA and H3K9me3, exhibit diminished H3K9 methylation in ORCA-depleted cells, suggesting a role for ORCA in recruiting the H3K9me3 mark at certain genomic loci. Similarly, DNA methylation is altered at ORCA-occupied sites in cells lacking ORCA. Furthermore, repressive chromatin marks influence ORCA's binding on chromatin. We propose that ORCA coordinates with the histone and DNA methylation machinery to establish a repressive chromatin environment at a subset of origins, which primes them for late replication., (© The Author(s) 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.)
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- 2017
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14. A replicator-specific binding protein essential for site-specific initiation of DNA replication in mammalian cells.
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Zhang Y, Huang L, Fu H, Smith OK, Lin CM, Utani K, Rao M, Reinhold WC, Redon CE, Ryan M, Kim R, You Y, Hanna H, Boisclair Y, Long Q, and Aladjem MI
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- Animals, Base Sequence, Cell Line, Embryo, Mammalian cytology, Fibroblasts metabolism, Genetic Loci, Genome, Humans, Locus Control Region, Mice, Models, Biological, Protein Binding, DNA Replication, DNA-Binding Proteins metabolism, Mammals metabolism, Replication Origin
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Mammalian chromosome replication starts from distinct sites; however, the principles governing initiation site selection are unclear because proteins essential for DNA replication do not exhibit sequence-specific DNA binding. Here we identify a replication-initiation determinant (RepID) protein that binds a subset of replication-initiation sites. A large fraction of RepID-binding sites share a common G-rich motif and exhibit elevated replication initiation. RepID is required for initiation of DNA replication from RepID-bound replication origins, including the origin at the human beta-globin (HBB) locus. At HBB, RepID is involved in an interaction between the replication origin (Rep-P) and the locus control region. RepID-depleted murine embryonic fibroblasts exhibit abnormal replication fork progression and fewer replication-initiation events. These observations are consistent with a model, suggesting that RepID facilitates replication initiation at a distinct group of human replication origins.
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- 2016
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15. Distinct epigenetic features of differentiation-regulated replication origins.
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Smith OK, Kim R, Fu H, Martin MM, Lin CM, Utani K, Zhang Y, Marks AB, Lalande M, Chamberlain S, Libbrecht MW, Bouhassira EE, Ryan MC, Noble WS, and Aladjem MI
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Background: Eukaryotic genome duplication starts at discrete sequences (replication origins) that coordinate cell cycle progression, ensure genomic stability and modulate gene expression. Origins share some sequence features, but their activity also responds to changes in transcription and cellular differentiation status., Results: To identify chromatin states and histone modifications that locally mark replication origins, we profiled origin distributions in eight human cell lines representing embryonic and differentiated cell types. Consistent with a role of chromatin structure in determining origin activity, we found that cancer and non-cancer cells of similar lineages exhibited highly similar replication origin distributions. Surprisingly, our study revealed that DNase hypersensitivity, which often correlates with early replication at large-scale chromatin domains, did not emerge as a strong local determinant of origin activity. Instead, we found that two distinct sets of chromatin modifications exhibited strong local associations with two discrete groups of replication origins. The first origin group consisted of about 40,000 regions that actively initiated replication in all cell types and preferentially colocalized with unmethylated CpGs and with the euchromatin markers, H3K4me3 and H3K9Ac. The second group included origins that were consistently active in cells of a single type or lineage and preferentially colocalized with the heterochromatin marker, H3K9me3. Shared origins replicated throughout the S-phase of the cell cycle, whereas cell-type-specific origins preferentially replicated during late S-phase., Conclusions: These observations are in line with the hypothesis that differentiation-associated changes in chromatin and gene expression affect the activation of specific replication origins.
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- 2016
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16. Replication origins: determinants or consequences of nuclear organization?
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Marks AB, Smith OK, and Aladjem MI
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- DNA Replication genetics, Humans, Chromatin genetics, Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly genetics, Genomic Instability, Replication Origin genetics
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Chromosome replication, gene expression and chromatin assembly all occur on the same template, necessitating a tight spatial and temporal coordination to maintain genomic stability. The distribution of replication initiation events is responsive to local and global changes in chromatin structure and is affected by transcriptional activity. Concomitantly, replication origin sequences, which determine the locations of replication initiation events, can affect chromatin structure and modulate transcriptional efficiency. The flexibility observed in the replication initiation landscape might help achieve complete and accurate genome duplication while coordinating the DNA replication program with transcription and other nuclear processes in a cell-type specific manner. This review discusses the relationships among replication origin distribution, local and global chromatin structures and concomitant nuclear metabolic processes., (Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
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- 2016
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17. ColoWeb: a resource for analysis of colocalization of genomic features.
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Kim R, Smith OK, Wong WC, Ryan AM, Ryan MC, and Aladjem MI
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- Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, Genome, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Computational Biology methods, Genomics, Sequence Analysis, DNA methods, Software
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Background: Next-generation sequencing techniques such as ChIP-seq allow researchers to investigate the genomic position of nuclear components and events. These experiments provide researchers with thousands of regions of interest to probe in order to identify biological relevance. As the cost of sequencing decreases and its robustness increases, more and more researchers turn to genome-wide studies to better understand the genomic elements they are studying. One way to interpret the output of sequencing studies is to investigate how the element of interest localizes in relationship to genome annotations and the binding of other nuclear components. Colocalization of genomic features could indicate cooperation and provide evidence for more detailed investigations. Although there are several existing tools for visualizing and analyzing colocalization, either they are difficult to use for experimental researchers, not well maintained, or without measurements for colocalization strength. Here we describe an online tool, ColoWeb, designed to allow experimentalists to compare their datasets to existing genomic features in order to generate hypotheses about biological interactions easily and quickly., Results: ColoWeb is a web-based service for evaluating the colocation of genomic features. Users submit genomic regions of interest, for example, a set of locations from a ChIP-seq analysis. ColoWeb compares the submitted regions of interest to the location of other genomic features such as transcription factors and chromatin modifiers. To facilitate comparisons among various genomic features, the output consists of both graphical representations and quantitative measures of the degree of colocalization between user's genomic regions and selected features. Frequent colocation may indicate a biological relationship., Conclusion: ColoWeb is a biologist-friendly web service that can quickly provide an assessment of thousands of genomic regions to identify colocated genomic features. ColoWeb is freely available at: http://projects.insilico.us.com/ColoWeb .
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- 2015
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18. Chromatin structure and replication origins: determinants of chromosome replication and nuclear organization.
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Smith OK and Aladjem MI
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- Animals, Chromatin metabolism, Genomic Instability genetics, Humans, Models, Genetic, Nuclear Proteins genetics, Nuclear Proteins metabolism, Cell Nucleus genetics, Chromatin genetics, DNA Replication genetics, Replication Origin genetics
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The DNA replication program is, in part, determined by the epigenetic landscape that governs local chromosome architecture and directs chromosome duplication. Replication must coordinate with other biochemical processes occurring concomitantly on chromatin, such as transcription and remodeling, to insure accurate duplication of both genetic and epigenetic features and to preserve genomic stability. The importance of genome architecture and chromatin looping in coordinating cellular processes on chromatin is illustrated by two recent sets of discoveries. First, chromatin-associated proteins that are not part of the core replication machinery were shown to affect the timing of DNA replication. These chromatin-associated proteins could be working in concert, or perhaps in competition, with the transcriptional machinery and with chromatin modifiers to determine the spatial and temporal organization of replication initiation events. Second, epigenetic interactions are mediated by DNA sequences that determine chromosomal replication. In this review, we summarize recent findings and current models linking spatial and temporal regulation of the replication program with epigenetic signaling. We discuss these issues in the context of the genome's three-dimensional structure with an emphasis on events occurring during the initiation of DNA replication., (Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
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- 2014
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19. Effect of adrenal medulla and of oral glucose on increase in plasma alpha-amino nitrogen after evisceration of cold-exposed rats.
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Smith OK
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- Animals, Male, Rats, Adrenal Medulla physiology, Cold Temperature, Glucose pharmacology, Nitrogen blood
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- 1976
20. Effect of cortisol on the plasma amino nitrogen of eviscerated adrenalectomized-diabetic rats.
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Smith OK and Long CN
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- Adrenalectomy, Animals, Gluconeogenesis, Rats, Amino Acids blood, Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental blood, Hydrocortisone pharmacology, Nitrogen blood
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- 1967
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21. Effect of cortisol on the metabolism of glucose in eviscerated adrenalectomized-diabetic rats.
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Smith OK
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- Adrenalectomy, Animals, Blood Glucose, Gluconeogenesis, Hepatectomy, Kidney metabolism, Kidney surgery, Male, Rats, Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental metabolism, Glucose metabolism, Hydrocortisone pharmacology
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- 1968
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22. The effect of fasting on the nucleic acid content of the tissues in the normal and adrenalectomized rat.
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SMITH OK
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- Animals, Rats, Adrenal Glands surgery, Fasting, Nucleic Acids metabolism
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- 1953
23. Renal gluconeogenesis in eviscerated diabetic rats.
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Smith OK and Long CN
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- Adrenal Medulla physiology, Adrenalectomy, Animals, Blood Glucose analysis, Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental blood, Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental urine, Digestive System Surgical Procedures, Epinephrine pharmacology, Glycosuria, Hydrocortisone pharmacology, Lactates pharmacology, Ligation, Male, Mathematics, Rats, Sodium Chloride pharmacology, Time Factors, Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental metabolism, Gluconeogenesis, Kidney metabolism
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Experiments were carried out in eviscerated rats having intact kidneys to examine the effects on body glucose of some conditions known to stimulate overall gluconeogenesis. Preliminary experiments confirmed the enhancing effect of renal ligation on falling blood glucose concentration after evisceration. Adrenodemedullation of alloxan-diabetic rats did not affect blood glucose concentration, but comparison with completely adrenalectomized rats again supported previous conclusions that the adrenocortical hormones, in the presence of the kidneys, maintained the blood glucose at higher concentrations after evisceration. Calculated changes in total body glucose concentration over a 4-hr period after evisceration of several groups of alloxan-diabetic rats with intact kidneys showed that epinephrine, like cortisol, consistently reduced losses of total body glucose compared to the controls. An intravenous infusion of lactic acid so diminished the fall in total body glucose in diabetic rats that changes actually became positive, which indicated a net addition of glucose to the body fluids. Thus, the increased rate of disappearance of blood glucose that follows renal ligation in eviscerated animals results in large part from the interruption of renal gluconeogenesis, and the kidneys as well as the liver must be taken into account when considering the total glucogenic capacity of the body.
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- 1971
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